Experts

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

University of Birmingham

Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation